Purpose of the Week's Workouts: This week's workouts will have us building back up our minutes and hitting a couple good workouts. We will combine our long run with a hill workout - here we go Sand Hill! - and we will continue to build our Pace Work on Thursday.
This Week's Schedule:
We'll keep having practice at Washington Elementary Monday through Thursday this week at 7:00a. On Friday we will have our Run-a-Thon at Sullivan Park. We will begin at 10:00a (so plan on meeting at 9:45a) and go until 10:00p. You will have three assigned times to run where you and a small group of teammates will take turns running a mile (relay style) for about 2 hours. Please know what times you will be able to run, try to have work off, and try and attend as much of the day as possible. During times that your group is not running, we will play games, eat and just hang out. The Run-a-Thon is also an opportunity to raise some money to help you pay for XC things. Info on this will be passed out at practice on Tuesday.
Saturday run on your own or make your own group run.
Weekly Challenge:
At least twice this week, take 5 minutes and spend time meditating and working on strentghening the mind like we've been reading about in our book
Minutes:
Please use this form and update your minutes and set a goal for yourself for this coming week (the more specific the goal the better) - and catch up any weeks you might have missed. This is how we will earn our minutes awards for the season.
Book Club:
Tuesday after morning practice. Please plan on sticking around and participating.
Other Stuff:
If you haven't done these things yet, please do:
- registermyathlete - get it done! Go to registermyathlete.com and complete - MUST BE COMPLETED THIS WEEK TO CONTINUE TO COME TO PRACTICE!
- PHYSICAL - get your physical scheduled and done ASAP (pick up the paperwork at practice)
- PHYSICAL AND REGISTERMYATHLETE MUST to be complete by July 17th to be able to go to camp!
- if you haven't looked at the Parent/Athlete Meeting slides, please do - this is in place of our Parent Meeting we usually have.
- take a look at the 2020 schedule and start making some plans - we are still in a little flux with some of the meets - WE WILL PROBABLY BE CHANGING THE MEET TO WEBER (they have changed the date, and I don't think we'll be able to attend).
Upcoming Events:
- Run-a-thon: Friday. We will follow the format we implemented last year of a 12 hour relay from 10:00a ('ish) to 10:00p ('ish) at Sullivan Park. Each athlete will have 3 two hour blocks and the final dash-for-cash hour assigned to attend. We will have pizza for dinner and treats and activities throughout the day. This is a great team building activity and also an opportunity to raise some money to help cover any of your XC costs.
- High Altitude Camp: July 27th-30th at Deer Haven Campground on Cedar Mountain. We are still planning on camp for now. (Please keep healthy, wear masks, and try and limit exposure so we can hold our camp.) Cost for camp is $90 (don't pay yet). We leave on Monday and camp at a national forest campground on Cedar Mountain and return on Thursday. At camp, we work on team building, run, have classes, do a ton of fun activities, and all sorts of stuff. We want everyone to attend. To do this, we will need to stay healthy and make some plans for rides and chaperones. Parents who may be able to drive up on Monday (around noon) and/or back on Thursday (around 10a), and any parents who may want to stay at camp for any/all of the time, please contact Coach Holt (via remind text or email david.holt@washk12.org) asap. Athletes, we need an initial count for planning purposes Monday at practice, so please discuss this with parents and see where you stand (as well as your t-shirt size).
Youth Summer Running Club Challenge #6:
One of our favorite games to play at club is realy races. So this week we are going to challenge you to create a relay race. You're going to need a couple friends or family members to join you, so go recruit some people. Your Challenge #6 is to create a relay race with some friends or family members. It doesn't matter how long your race is or how many people you have in it, just get a group together and have each person run a segment (what we call a "leg"). Maybe you want to run it a couple times and try and beat your time. Or maybe if you have enough people, have two teams and race each other. Whatever you do, just get out and have some fun with a few other people.
Remember, we are doing this in place of our usual summer club. If you are able to do 8 of our 10 weekly challenges you will earn a special award. And if you complete your summer marathon of 26.2 miles, you'll earn your certificate. So use the links below to keep track of your progress and keep up the good work!
Remember, we are doing this in place of our usual summer club. If you are able to do 8 of our 10 weekly challenges you will earn a special award. And if you complete your summer marathon of 26.2 miles, you'll earn your certificate. So use the links below to keep track of your progress and keep up the good work!
PVXC Thought of the Week:
"an old Zen saying, 'Before enlightment, chop wood, carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.'"
-Shawn Green quoting a Zen saying
Chop wood, carry water... what does it mean? It means you take care of the basics. You get wood for your fire and you get water to drink and cook with. When do you do these things? All the time. You do it while you are learning and you do it after you have learned. You always take care of the basics because those are the things that lead to being your best self. What are the "Chop Wood"s and "Carry Water"s for us in our running and in our lives? It might be a good practice to identify those things and (re)evaluate how each of us are doing on them and what one might do to become more focused on doing them better.
"an old Zen saying, 'Before enlightment, chop wood, carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.'"
-Shawn Green quoting a Zen saying
Chop wood, carry water... what does it mean? It means you take care of the basics. You get wood for your fire and you get water to drink and cook with. When do you do these things? All the time. You do it while you are learning and you do it after you have learned. You always take care of the basics because those are the things that lead to being your best self. What are the "Chop Wood"s and "Carry Water"s for us in our running and in our lives? It might be a good practice to identify those things and (re)evaluate how each of us are doing on them and what one might do to become more focused on doing them better.
No comments:
Post a Comment